Hugging the Shore by John Updike

Author:John Updike
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Non-Fiction, Writing
ISBN: 9780679645849
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1983-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The nine-year-old heroine of “The Fat Man” is not kissed but killed, and expresses her power by haunting the murderer: “It is her small light step that has followed close on his own all the time.” In “The Proud Lady,” a fifteen-year-old girl persuades, with a kiss, the executioner of Paris to show her aristocratic grandmother a courtesy on the scaffold befitting her rank; and in “Uncle Seneca” and “The Ghost Horses,” little mystery tales first printed in American slick magazines, young women are privy to potent secrets. The heroine of “The Ghost Horses” is only six, and is described thus:

As she stood up, in her small flannel nightgown, her face was on a level with his. What lovely eyes and delicately arched eyebrows, what rich hair. And what a sudden, strange power in the whole frail figure.

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